Polish - Sociologist | November 19, 1925 - January 9, 2017
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
Zygmunt Bauman
LivePeopleWorldDoingNeverUs
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
LifeCommunicationLiveYourselfYou
I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
I AmDieWillAm
We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
SilenceTalkingYouStopOutBelong
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
DreamsDaySocialismHumanOutLeft
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
JusticeWorldFreeRestRichTools
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
DailyLoyaltyCultureWorldNewUp
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
ThinkBetterBe DifferentWhyWrite
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
YourselfValueSurround YourselfYou
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.
LoveDeathSoundThingsPredictable
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
LovePowerLove IsFarFourFusion
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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